The correct way to average the globe

By Medium - 2021-03-18

Description

The average. It’s a simple enough calculation: add up all your data points and divide by the total number points. Does this simple equation work if you are, for instance, calculating the global…

Summary

  • Why area-weighting your data is important The average.
  • The traditional mean is just a special case of the weighted mean where each weight is equal to 1.
  • If the grid cell area is not provided the code below will facilitate calculating an area grid.
  • In summary, area-weighting is the correct and best way to calculate global averages if you have a spatially complete gridded dataset.

 

Topics

  1. Backend (0.38)
  2. Database (0.2)
  3. Security (0.11)

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